Gregory Kramer offers a talk about awareness and release. Recorded in BC, Canada in September 2010.
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Awareness Releases the Knot
Gregory Kramer speaks about how awareness releases the knot. Recorded in Eire, Tulloch during 7-day open retreat co-taught with Anne Michel. June 2010.
Balance, Remembering and Effort
This talk considers how right effort and the calling forth of joy and curiosity cultivates a path of remembering and mindfulness for daily life. Recorded in Holland, September 2012.
Clinging and the Vicissitudes
In this talk, Mary Burns describes how we can have stability of mind even when changes happen in life and we take it personally, thinking things shouldn’t be as they are. We can guard the sense doors and know how to meet with awareness the worldly dhammas of gain and loss, praise and blame, pleasure and pain, fame and disrepute. When we know it, we can meet it in the way that it is, not in the way we thought it should be.
Constructed and Unconstructed Intimacy and Love
Gregory Kramer speaks about constructed and unconstructed intimacy. Recorded in Luzern/Rorschach, Switzerland. July 2010.
Cracking Hunger and Ignorance
Gregory Kramers gives a talk on Cracking Hunger and Ignorance. Recorded in September 2010 in BC, Canada.
Four Doorways to Speaking and Listening
In this talk, Gregory Kramer describes how to bring listening and speaking into meditation while maintaining the integrity of practice. The four doorways of listening and speaking are: 1) mindful versus habitual speech; 2) relationship; 2) psychotherapy; and, 4) the meditative. Speech comes from and the development of a capacity for the auditory system to perceive. Through the enlightenment factors and the capacity to reside in loving kindness receptivity, meditators share the intimacy of the moment. Recorded in Kansas City, Missouri in May 2011.
Guided Metta Meditation
This meditation guides us through the expansiveness of metta starting from the self and then moving in all directions to all beings, humbling receiving loving kindness.